October 20, 2016

New York Film Festival 2016

Our 10 Most Anticipated Films Of New York Film FestivalAva DuVernay's The 13th: "'Writing history with lightning' was how President Woodrow Wilson praised D.W. Griffth’s groundbreaking but unreservedly racist The Birth of a Nation, which portrayed black men as animalistic rapists and the Ku Klux Klan as noble white knights. Met with a 'rapturous response' upon its 1915 debut, 'the first major blockbuster' has cast a long shadow over American culture. And black American filmmaker Ava DuVernay aims to beat back these hateful shadows by writing history in lightning of her own."Barry Jenkins' Moonlight: "Moonlight surprised me. Then it rattled me to my core. And finally, it nestled snuggly inside my heart."Alex Horowitz's Hamilton's America: "Hamilfans will rejoice over the information, interviews, and elegance of Hamilton’s America. But they’ll completely lose their goddamn minds over its performance sections." James Grey's Lost City of Z: "The film is painted in khaki, greys, and mud, with the emotional intelligence of a dried out carrot."Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women: "There’s a fragile thread of humor laced through Kelly Reichardt’s latest drama, that so deeply understands what it is to be a woman in America right now, that this female occasionally cackled."

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Kristy Puchko is a critic/entertainment journalist who has been published on Vanity Fair, Vulture, Time Out NY, Nerdist, Pajiba, IndieWire, Mental Floss, Screen Rant, Screen Crush, Film.com, The Mary Sue, The Film Stage and CBR.com. She also co-hosts the weekly movie review podcast Popcorn & Prosecco (now on iTunes!), and regularly joins the cast of It's Erik Nagel, on Sirius XM.